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Designing laser beams carrying OAM for a high-performance underwater communication system

Abstract

We present a design methodology for creating a distinct laser beam set suitable for detection by using only the recorded intensity pattern. We consider four coherent Laguerre–Gaussian beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) to form the basis for optical communication. The complex electric fields of the beams are superimposed to create 16 dissimilar intensity patterns. The presented beam set design method considers the beam generation hardware limitations and aims to minimize the correlation among the messages and maximize their intensity differences. After propagating the 16 messages through a water channel, we measured high correlation, intensity similarity, and R-squared values for the identical messages and low values for the different ones. Distinct clustering between the measurements for the matching messages and the rest allows us to set a threshold in the gap among the groupings and successfully classify the received images.

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